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play0:00 / 11:02The former editor of the Sun newspaper, Kelvin Mackenzie. has a column in today's Daily Mail attacking the arrests of Sun journalists in ...
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NickMargerrison Kelvin's great. Always a voice of common sense.
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thedialogueproject Not a healthy conversation this. And not a dialogue. More heat than light sadly. A few modest thoughts on why: There's clearly some inside knowledge by all three participants that none of them can explicitly talk about. So we get code and an almost legal precision from Evan Davis and evasion from Kelvin Mackenzie. I can't imagine many people saying what Kelvin Mackenzie says and not getting called up for it by an interviewer. There are a few strange things going on here in fact which make me think there must be some backstage conditions going on that we the listeners aren't privy to. At the beginning of the interview Evan Davis sounds extremely tentative. Kelvin Mackenzie is allowed to shout down a legitimate question. It's 5 mins before Tom Watson is invited in. His audio line is poor and sadly he generalises too about Kelvin Mackenzie personally. An interviewer's role is surely to be balanced and enable the participants to shed light on a shady issue. Evan Davis steps back and let's the two opposing points of view have a go at each other. Is this deliberate in the name of 'drama' and a good dramatic fight? I hope not. Kelvin Mackenzie then takes a a sarcastic tone and attacks Tom Watson. Again, Evan Davis steps back and let's it happen. The temperature heats up. There's less light than ever and it descends into insults. When Evan Davis does intervene, it's to chastise Tom Watson's mention of Hillsborough, rightly so perhaps, but having let Kelvin Mackenzie rant this feels like a primary school teacher who doesn't even bother to tell off or reprimand the naughty child. Or the bully.
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play0:00 / 8:30At a lecture last night in London, the American Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman gave a withering attack on the British governm...
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play0:00 / 2:32Arthur Laffer, who designed the Laffer Curve, speaks to Today presenter Simon Jack.
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play0:00 / 2:44John Humphrys and Rory Cellan-Jones discuss the impact of High Court ruling ISPs to block access to filesharing site The Pirate Bay -
play0:00 / 4:39With the Jubilee jubilations moving as far as St Paul's Cathedral today, spare a thought for Dr Alex Kumar, who is probably the remotest ...
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play0:00 / 13:50Chancellor George Osborne gives an analysis of the UK finances following his Autumn Statement.
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play0:00 / 7:57European foreign ministers meeting in Brussels are to discuss whether to take further action against Iran after Britain's embassy in Tehr...
